God wants us to be good thinkers!

• Introduction

  • Isaiah 1:10-18 – God will not bear it when we sin and then try to worship Him. “I cannot endure sin and the solemn assembly.”

  • Psalms 32:8-9 – Don’t be like an unthinking animal!

  • Ephesians 4:11-13

• What is logic?

  • A study of how to think correctly and reach true conclusions.

  • Romans 1:20

  • Logic is not a study of facts. It is a study of what we can correctly deduce from facts.

  • John 9:33

• Logic comes from God

  • We are not perfect thinkers, but God is. All truth emanates from Him. Isaiah 55:7-9. The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are perfectly united in truth.

  • Jesus left us with many examples of logical behavior and thinking.

    • Luke 2:47 – People were amazed at Jesus’ understanding and answers at age 12!

    • Matthew 4:1-11 – Jesus refuted Satan by appealing to scripture.

    • Matthew 22:41-46 – Jesus prompted others to think about His own Deity by what the Scriptural facts implied.

    • John 14:6

    • Luke 11:14-20 – Jesus used logic to refute the charge that He is casting out demons by Beelzebul (Luke 10:17).

    • His teaching was coherent and profound!

      • John 10:21; Matthew 7:28-29; John 7:15, 46

    • Jesus’ perfect knowledge allowed Him to identify their faulty logic so that they could no longer answer Him a word. Matthew 22:15-46

  • I Corinthians 2:11 – The Bible helps us become better thinkers as we develop and try to mimic the mind of God, and becoming better thinkers helps us to become better Bible students.

• Christians will strive to be good thinkers.

  • Genesis 1:27

  • Ephesians 5:1

  • God has always prompted His people to use their minds to examine things critically and make good decisions.

    • I Thessalonians 5:21; Romans 12:2; Mark 16:17-20; John 3:2; Hebrews 2:1-4; Acts 17:1-3

  • Serving God involves using the mind He blessed us with.

• Logic is not the absence of emotion.

  • God Himself is described as having emotions. Genesis 6:6; Isaiah 65:19; Mark 3:5

• Logic is not opposed to faith.

  • The very existence of logic points toward the existence of an immaterial Mind (God).

    • Law of non-contradiction

    • Law of the excluded middle

  • How would you explain the existence of such immaterial laws from an atheistic perspective?

  • “Secular thinkers cannot make sense of the laws of logic. …”